Carla Joinson

Vanished in Hiawatha (eBook, PDF)

The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians

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Produktbeschreibung

Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native patients of their freedom without genuine cause, often requiring only the signature of a reservation agent. Only nine Native patients in the asylum¿s history were committed by court order. Without interpreters, mental evaluations, or therapeutic programs, few patients recovered. But who cared about Indians and what went on in South Dakota? After three decades of complacency, both the superintendent and the city of Canton were surprised to discover that someone did care and that a bitter fight to shut the asylum down was about to begin. In this disturbing tale, Carla Joinson unravels the question of why this institution persisted for so many years. She also investigates the people who allowed Canton Asylum¿s mismanagement to reach such staggering proportions and asks why its administrators and staff were so indifferent to the misery experienced by patients.Vanished in Hiawatha is the harrowing tale of the mistreatment of Native American patients at a notorious insane asylum whose history helps us to understand the broader mistreatment of Native peoples under forced federal assimilation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803288263
• Artikelnr.: 55972772

Autorenporträt

Carla Joinson is a freelance writer who lives near Johnson City, Tennessee. She is the author of A Diamond in the Dust and Civil War Doctor: The Story of Mary Walker.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Where Will All the Insane Indians Go?
2. Life in an Asylum
3. The Bad Start Begins
4. Helpless
5. A Superintendent in Trouble
6. Which Way to Canton?
7. The Reign of Harry Reid Hummer Begins
8. Reforms and Canton Asylum
9. Let the Investigations Begin
10. Life among the Indians
11. Another Sort of Prison
12. The World Outside
13. Hummer Can’t Keep Up
14. Ripples in the Waters
15. The Winds of Change
16. The Gale Blows
Epilogue
Afterthoughts
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Patients Treated at Canton Asylum
Appendix B: Patients Interred in Canton Asylum Cemetery
Appendix C: Patients Transferred to St. Elizabeths
Notes
Bibliography
Index